Defined plugins in 'custom.plugins' are not synced

The latest change introduced the option to use a seperate file for defining plugins ootb. At least on my machine, this does not seem to work as expected.

How to reproduce

check out kickstart.nvim in ~/.config/nvim
add file lua/costum/plugins.lua
copy relevant snippet from Readme
save and reopen neovim
run :PackerSync
no new plugins are added :(

Can anybody reproduce this, or is there something wrong with my setup? Thx

can you show your exact custom/plugins file? And to be clear, you put it in custom/plugins not costom/plugins right?

Sorry for the late reply. Had the chance to try this on a different machine today... It works just fine!

I assume PEBKAC on my last attempt - sorry for the inconvinience!

No problem at all :) have a good day

I'm seeing the exact same behaviour here.
My $HOME/.config/nvim/custom/plugins.lua:

return function(use)
  use({
	'nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua'
	config = function()
		require("nvim-tree").setup()
	'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'
	end
	})

I think the file needs to be located at

$HOME/.config/nvim/lua/custom/plugins.lua

Yes, sorry - my mistake... :(

However, it would seem that the custom/plugins.lua is only read for config of the plugin. Packer doesn't seem to see any plugins included in it...
I now have 3 plugins configured in it:

return function(use)
-- Configure nvim-tree
  use({
	'nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua'
	config = function()
		require("nvim-tree").setup()
	'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'
	end
-- Add friendly snippets
  use({
	'rafamadriz/friendly-snippets'
	config = function ()
		require("friendly-snippets").setup()
	end
	})
end

and it never installs 'friendly-snippets', and if I run PackerSync manually it always asks if it can remove the unused nvim-tree plugins... (which were installed when I had them in init.lua, which was when I had the wrong path to my custom/plugins.lua)
It does read the nvim-tree config though, since I can create a keymap for it in my after/plugin/defaults.lua...
What am I doing wrong?

@jby

Hi @jby,
It works fine for me, have you tried :PackerInstall (before:PackerSync)?
Also, for PackerSync always asking to remove the old nvim-tree, you can try to delete this folders:
~/.config/cache/nvim
It will rebuild it the next time you launch neovim.

EDIT: also for friendly-snippets to be taken into account by luasnip you have to replace the line require('friendly-snippets').setup() whith require('luasnip.loader.from_vscode').lazy_load().

I'd guess it's these (rather than ~/.config/cache/nvim, especially since I don't have a cache dir in ~/.config) that I should remove?

However a :PackerInstall does nothing...

I'm pretty sure though, that if I were to remove the above I would no longer have the nvim-tree plugin installed...

You can remove ~/.local/share/nvim, it will reset your config and reinstall everything (you may have to restart neovim a couple of time for everything to be set up).

I don't knwow if the custom/plugins.lua you showed is only a snippet or the entire file. If it is the entire file, a }) is missing, also nvim-web-devicons should be required. Here is the file with the corrections :

return function(use)
-- Configure nvim-tree
  use({
	{'nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua', requires = 'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'},
	config = function()
		require("nvim-tree").setup()
	'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'
	end
	})
-- Add friendly snippets
  use({
	'rafamadriz/friendly-snippets'
	config = function ()
		require("luasnip.loaders.from_vscode").lazy_load()
	end
	})
end

Ok, thanks - but still - no install of the plugins in the custom file.
I did remove ~/.local/share/nvim and when I restarted it re-installed everything again - but not the plugins in the custom file:

Albeit it does look for it since I've configured it...

Error detected while processing /Users/jonasb/src/jby/nvim/after/plugin/defaults.lua:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: /Users/jonasb/src/jby/nvim/after/plugin/defaults.lua:4: module 'nvim-tree' not found:
        no field package.preload['nvim-tree']
        no file './nvim-tree.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/share/luajit-2.1.0-beta3/nvim-tree.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/nvim-tree.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/nvim-tree/init.lua'
        no file '/Users/jonasb/.cache/nvim/packer_hererocks/2.1.0-beta3/share/lua/5.1/nvim-tree.lua'
        no file '/Users/jonasb/.cache/nvim/packer_hererocks/2.1.0-beta3/share/lua/5.1/nvim-tree/init.lua'
        no file '/Users/jonasb/.cache/nvim/packer_hererocks/2.1.0-beta3/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/nvim-tree.lua'
        no file '/Users/jonasb/.cache/nvim/packer_hererocks/2.1.0-beta3/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/nvim-tree/init.lua'
        no file './nvim-tree.so'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/nvim-tree.so'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
        no file '/Users/jonasb/.cache/nvim/packer_hererocks/2.1.0-beta3/lib/lua/5.1/nvim-tree.so'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'require'
        /Users/jonasb/src/jby/nvim/after/plugin/defaults.lua:4: in main chunk

So - the ~/.config/nvim/after/plugin/defaults.lua definitively is read, but apparently not the ~/.config/nvim/lua/custom/plugins.lua

Hmm, my ~/.config/nvim/lua/custom/plugins.lua doesn't even seem to be read even if I ignore the logic that's supposed to look for it and manually specify it in init.lua like this:

(require 'custom.plugins')

My ~/.config/nvim/lua/custom/plugins.lua now:

return function(use)
  -- Configure nvim-tree
  use({
    {'nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua', requires = 'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'},
    config = function()
      require("nvim-tree").setup()
      'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'
    end
  })
  -- Add friendly snippets
  use({
    'rafamadriz/friendly-snippets',
    config = function ()
      require('luasnip.loader.from_vscode').lazy_load()
    end
  })
  -- // Comment.nvim
  use {
    'numToStr/Comment.nvim',
    config = function()
      require('Comment').setup()
    end
  }
end

The only way, so far I get the plugins I want to add to actually be installed and used is to add them to init.lua...
Doesn't that kind of make the custom.plugins rather useless?

Doesn't that kind of make the custom.plugins rather useless?

Sure but it seems that you are the only one with this problem, I'm sorry, I'm running out of ideas.

I kind of feel like I've hi-jacked someone else's, already closed, issue here. Maybe I should create my own instead?

Created #176 instead

chore(master): release 3.1.0 (nvim-lua#34)

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